I’ve spent the bulk of my three years at BuzzFeed News as an editor at BuzzFeed Reader. I edited 2017 National Magazine Award finalist Bim Adewunmi and other staff writers on our team and also worked with freelancers on personal essays, cultural criticism, profiles, and features. Here are some pieces I edited that I’m especially proud of:
I Walked From Selma to Montgomery by Rahawa Haile (included among Longread’s best essays of 2018)
My Mother And I Went Halfway Around The World To Find Each Other by Jennifer Hope Choi (included in Best American Travel Writing 2018)
Ellen Degeneres And The Limits of Relatability by Shannon Keating
I’m Finally Ready To Talk About How My Parents Died by Anonymous
How Native American Is Native American Enough? by Tommy Orange
Natasha Trethewey Wants An American Reckoning by Hanif Abdurraqib
I Went To A Dirty Dancing Festival And It Made Me Weepy by Elisabeth Donnelly
How Blac Chyna Beat The Kardashians At Their Own Game by Sylvia Obell
Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism by Lauren Michele Jackson
Michael Wang Didn’t Get Into Harvard. He Thinks It’s Because He’s Asian by Esther Wang
Why I’ve Had Trouble Buying Hollywood’s Version Of Girl Power by Alison Willmore
Kiese Laymon Knows His New Memoir Is Raw. But It’s Not Trauma Porn by Bim Adewunmi
Pickup Artists Are Still A Thing. And They Want You To Know They’ve Evolved by Scaachi Koul